Founder Focus

About the Founders
For our final week of Arts & Culture month we want to introduce you to three founders from the InvestHer Directory whom all place originality at the heart of their ventures. Karina Iskin, Co-Founder & CEO at Iskin Sisters is creating wearable art in the shape of customised jewellery, allowing for individuality in expression. Elizabeth Vargas, Founder & CEO at Edge Music Network, inspires originality via her interactive digital music network, providing live and on-demand content through her powerful video syndication platform. Finally, we have Morgan DeBaun, Founder & CEO at Blavity, the leading news company and media brand for Black millennials + Gen Z in the U.S.

About the Founders
This week our three featured founders are all tapping into their imaginations when it comes to promoting art! Angie Madara, Founder & CEO at Growd Global, is working with parents and children to find, design and match them to co-curricular activities such as music, sports and arts. Rebecca Hui, Founder & CEO at Roots Studio, is leading a collective of future-forward creatives, grassroots community organisers, and technologists reimagining cultural preservation. Julie Bonnecarrere, Founder & CCO at Northern Lights Entertainment, is currently developing Nebulae: a sci-fiMMO strategy game encompassing an integrated political simulator and 3D combat in space.
They are all pushing boundaries and using their imagination to find new creative ways to place art at the forefront in public debate.

About the Founders
A new month equals a new theme and during the month of September we will introduce you to some fabulous founders in the Arts/Culture/Entertainment industry from our InvestHer Directory. Renata Thome, Co-Founder & CCO, Alpha’a is making art accessible for all through her socially conscious, community-oriented online platform. Sarah Mak, Co-Founder & CEO, Folktale is on a mission to transform how organisations globally approach storytelling. Clothilde Chalot, Co-Founder & CEO, NomadPlay is making it possible to access thousands of interactive sheet music and play along with the best musicians.
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Art is truly at the centre of all heARTs this month, read on below to learn more about these passionate founders.

About the Founders
This week our featured founders from the InvestHer Directory all place connection at the core of great holiday moment and this means bringing people together through body and soul experiences. Cherae Robinson, Founder & CEO at Tastemakers Africa for instance is busy connecting travellers to creative entrepreneurs in African cities like Accra, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Our second founder this week is Emma Welsh, Co-Founder & CEO at Emma & Tom’s, help you to reconnect with your body and feel amazing while making healthy delicious. Finally we want to introduce you to Hyojeong Kim, Founder & CEO at NomadHer, empowering women globetrotters to travel solo by connecting them through her app!

About the Founders
​This week we would like for you to meet Ama Marfo, Co-Founder & CEO at Airfordable, dedicated to making travel accessible and affordable for all, because all of us deserve to have new experiences in our lives. Our second founder this week is Olga Pavuka, Founder & CEO at DeepH, placing emphasis on technology when it comes to tracking energy/activity in order to help us live our happiest and healthiest lives. The third founder of the week is Antoinette Palmer-Davis, CEO at Ettenio, focused on providing customers with 100% jamaican handmade ecoluxury personal care products with only the best from nature.
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This week it’s all about affordable wellness, happy pampering!

About the Founders
Johanna Mukoki, Co-Founder & Owner of Travel with Flair is adding a little bit of sophistication to the world of corporate travel, making it the easiest it has ever been as clients now can book their routine travel online, whenever and wherever. In her search for excellence, Kristin Karst, Co-Owner & Executive Vice President of AmaWaterways ended up starting her own travel company, placing luxury at the heart of her riverboat holiday tours. On the other end of the travel spectrum is Aziza Chaouachi, Co-Founder & CEO at Leavy.co, offering millennials on a budget a way to use their homes as a means to a holiday end through her home rental platform.
Bon Voyage!

About the Founders
This week it’s all about innovation and wellness! Our three founders from the InvestHer Directory all believe this combination is the the way forward when it comes to women’s wellbeing.   Ciara Donlon  started Theya Healthcare  when breast cancer survivors regularly came to her for comfortable, functional and beautiful alternatives when healing after their surgeries. So she created underwear made from bamboo material that helps them heal better.   Polly Rodriguez  believes all women deserves to experience pleasure in a safe way and by creating beautiful, body safe vibes & accessories through Unbound she is determined to make it happen. Our final trailblazer this week is  Joanna Griffiths, busy bringing revolutionary solutions to life through  Knix  and transforming an underwear market that had too much frill and not enough function.

​About Brandy Hoffman
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Brandy Hoffman is an experienced chief operating officer and entrepreneur with a passion for marketing, supply chain and operations management, and superior products and community ​ who has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur and the New York Times.  

​About Laura

Laura Clise began as a corporate intrapreneur, holding various roles leading sustainability, corporate responsibility, supplier diversity, and external communications. However, her passion to drive social and environmental impact led her to become the founder and CEO of the Intentionalist.

Laura is a regular speaker on sustainability, climate change mitigation, and diversity and inclusion, as well as serving on the board of directors for Athlete Ally and IslandWood. She has also won several awards such as the LGBT Leadership Award issued by the National Diversity Council.